b t i. s. but he says the united states is attacking free speech by forcing r.t. to register as a foreign agent adding that the response from russia is on the table. these latest pictures from barcelona where thousands of him protesting on catalonia as national day they're demanding the release of the jailed former leaders of the region continues in deep political crisis. and power play in the middle east intensifies the saudi arabia yemen's defense ministry while also being accused of declaring war on lebanon.

great to have you with us this money was neil harvey this is art international. attacks on r.t. in the united states equal to attacks on free speech according to president vladimir putin he was answering reporters' questions on the last day of the apec summit taking place in vietnam. did you lose students to those who are doing this in the us have always been proud of being the world's number one democrats and freedom of speech has always been the main value it here to buy them there's no democracy without freedom of speech and it's not going our media in the us is making a mistake an attack on freedom of speech itself mr putin also promised that the

russian government will come up with appropriate retaliation such retaliation may affect american or american funded media that are operating in russia this is a reaction to a very recent decision by the u.s. department of justice to set a deadline for our team america our u.s. brands to register as a foreign agent and we were forced to obey because otherwise we would have been in trouble with the u.s. law but in any case as a foreign agent our t. america will now face and norma's challenges and difficulties something our editor in chief called unbearable conditions for a media organization aimed at destroying r.t. this brings us to why we're seeing all this hostility against russian media in the u.s. that's because of accusations of russian meddling in the us presidential race according to american journalists that are traveling with donald trump on his plane mr trump

did bring this issue up during his few chats with a lot of our putin at the apec summit and here's a quote from donald trump that they shared every time he sees me he says i didn't do that and i really believe that when he tells me that he means it i think he's very insulted by it going back to vladimir putin's press conference here's how he addressed the many russia related investigations inquiries hearings that are simply nonstop in america. i think that everything regarding the russian in the us has to do with only going internal political standoff it's simply part of the desire to use anything in the fight against the current president despite this internal political standoff in the us a lot of our putin said as he did many times before that moscow is ready to turn

the page and look into the future for the benefit of both the russians and americans. who come to the on the line now to discuss this in more detail john president putin said he was ready to talk and he said the fact that the u.s. wasn't represents a deep crisis in u.s. russia relations why didn't it happen the talk when will the u.s. be ready. well i think we have to take take into consideration that president trump is dealing with a two sided problem he naturally wants to talk with the russian president and the result of these issues president trump campaigned on this on this approach and he's been making clear signs that he wants to speak but president trump is being undermined behind his own back in washington and in power centers in america by not only the democratic party which is trying to undermine him in the congress but also

by the military industrial complex which has a. i would i would actually call it a stranglehold on the u.s. media and so president trump has to watch his own back when he tries to negotiate the best possible be a deal for the american people and that's why he's under pressure president trump has to get control of his own white house he has to get control over congress and he has to be able to then once he's covered his own back be able to enter into discussions with president putin how badly do you think that meeting was actually needed at this point. well i think it's pretty obvious that meeting is needed for for the for the world community to see some stability and a meeting is also needed for president trump to be able to assert his authority as president president trump having to deal with his own problems inside america. by members of congress and by the media has to eventually get control of this

narrative and i'm sure he will he was able to do it during the campaign he has been able to do it several times since taking office but it seems that the democratic party and their supporters in the media are doing everything they can to simply tie his hands and burn up his presidency if they could burn up one or two years of his presidency with him having to fight to protect his own back that suits them because they didn't want anything of his agenda to go forward. to reporters that he believed. in when he said to him that he didn't meddle in the u.s. election u.s. media in particular c.n.n. have seized on that c.n.n. said that well point now was in the question of whether russia meddled in the u.s. now as i understand has been though hold. of any interference it's all been based on what has been said by the u.s. intelligence and spy agencies now what point did taking the word of organizations that all proven law is in history and that by their very nature deceitful

organizations they even deceive their own people what point to taking their word as gospel suddenly become fact. well i'm trusting that the average american citizen who is well informed and has experience living in america knows that that shouldn't be done we've got here a very very difficult period in american internal politics in which elected president who won a legal election is being undermined and meddled with inside america by road intelligence agencies and by rogue media and that's the main struggle and that's the main meddling that's taking place i have to say it's extremely difficult to meddle in a u.s. election when the united states has a constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech what that means is that if president putin had himself walked. in across the u.s.

border put up a microphone and spoken on a loudspeaker he would have been legally allowed to do that and that could not have constitutionally been called mentally and we also have to take into consideration that nigel for raj the leader of the brics a campaign in in england i'm sitting here talking to you from london today nigel farage actually flew to the united states and spoke at donald trump's election campaign rallies in front of tens of thousands and millions of people on television and that wasn't considered meddling in the u.s. election so i really have to ask what would a person have to do to meddle in an election in a country where freedom of speech is guaranteed by law and you mentions of the i just want to pick up on and i've had this conversation with the american colleagues which is that the level of free speech the extent of things you can see in the seas quite remarkable and many would say very admirable the things you can say under free speech and yet we find russian media in particular now having to register as

a foreign agent hoots and says that's an attack on free speech the i don't think he has a point. obviously he does a journalist is a journalist and a journalist should be able to move from country to country across borders provided he he maintains or she maintains the principles of free and open journalism that means covering both points of view covering both sides of a story allowing both sides to speak my experience in doing commentaries with our t. is highly different from my experience from when i was doing commentaries and reports for c.n.n. as you might know i did do reports for c.n.n. in the past for the b.b.c. in the past for various media all around the world when i said something that they didn't like one hundred percent i was cut off by the media that's not happened to be here at r t and i have to say that the the whole tone of these accusations defies logic and defies the obvious observation that on russian media in the

united states both sides and both points of view are always presented and that's part of the reason that i appear here i have no personal link with russia and i'm not paid to appear i'm asked an opinion i give the opinion i've never been censored and i've never been edited i cannot say the same for my own personal experiences and appearances on c.n.n. or even here in london on b.b.c. well i've had some fascinating interviews with people who have totally disagreed with may but nonetheless we always welcome their opinions and we always welcome you'll appreciate your views today jumbos the political commentator thank you. thank you. now a much anticipated formal meeting between the two never transpired the pair did bump into each other more than once.

thousands are on the streets on catalonia as national day demanding the release of their jailed form of the dis. pro independence movements of call for massive protests in barcelona the demonstration comes just a day after the speaker of the catalan parliament was released on bail from prison only the region's declaration of independence was formally an old buy in madrid. ok let's get an update now on what's been happening from local journalist evelyn occurred since guess who's on the ground for us just bring us up to date then what are the scenes like today at those protests. hello good evening. so you said before there is there was another protest hundreds actually tells of people gathered today in barcelona to demand their release of eight former ministers of catalonia to release their political prisoners and government for

those already released yesterday by the criminal court on bail and people came here today to say they don't want political prisoners they want actually want their president back in barcelona and they were screaming callus put them on callous put them on and they were screaming liberty they were screaming freedom and the truth is it's actually very emotional very peaceful people are putting candles they were lighting their phones they were down seeing they were thinking there was life music and there were families of the political prisoners on the state saying and basically criticizing the government of spain the government in madrid and as you said before people were protesting of course in favor of independence because they want catalonia to to to separate from spain and they say whatever the spanish government is doing it's not the mcgrath take it's not correct and it's not right

and they were underlining all the time that they want the political prisoners out and they wanted their president back in catalonia. eveline the christians could bring it up today from council earlier thank you. now here's a quick recap for you what's happened in the region over the past month or so on october first the region held an independence referendum that was marred by a violent police crackdown an overwhelming majority voted to break away from spain independence was declared on october twenty seventh later the same day madrid stripped the region of self rule in order to snap elections and then last week eight former catalan ministers were jailed on charges of sedition and rebellion the following day madrid issued a european arrest warrant for the region's sanct leader and then just yesterday the catalan parliament spokesperson was released on bail.

in other news videos been released of an unexploded rocket reportedly fired by saudi forces lying in the streets of the yemeni capital sanaa the head of the bomb disposal team claims the rocket was likely targeting a police academy in the area and it comes just a day after saudi led airstrikes hit the defense ministry there is a fear that there may have been civilian casualties as some of the buildings collapsed such scenes of destruction that you can see now become a daily occurrence in sanaa we had has intensified its bombardment of yemen in response to a missile fired towards the saudi capital a week ago by the rebels. right after last saturday strike saudi arabia blamed around for it saying that tehran support the rebels later a senior u.s. air force official said that the ballistic missile was made in iran to iran denies the accusations when i read more of these are businesses. as they demonstrated and there are issues there that to me that connects the dots to our in

terms of who's supplying. missiles and their capability of someone i am going to in the world which we do not even have the ability to transfer missiles the human it's the missiles and movements to increase the missiles reach. around analyst and director of the international center for human rights are the sheers out as are the believes that yemen prove civilians are paying a high price for the game of saudi arabia and iran are playing in the middle east. both contraries are trying to be the kings of the middle it's iran and saudi arabia and this would solve the. already declared that iran is impossible so i can't predict that they will come up with there is allusion but that's the best strategy for civilians in yemen and even in the in the area. for more news after this short break.

one hundred years ago russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence is not an understatement to say the russian revolution will also be could talk was a defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russia. that's already an entrenched. giant squid penetrating every facet of the economy and it's being financed by money that they can borrow. zero percent by anything without any. regulations bumping into them whatsoever so

that you apply that to maybe five or six times companies five years from now you can just five or six share prices will be exorbitant like a google or amazon or berkshire hathaway stock prices over children. welcome back plans to create a six branch of the u.s. military a special space corps been rejected by the proposal initially been passed by the house of representatives in july the lawmakers have decided now to exclude it from the final seven hundred billion dollars budget for the next year the bill was amended so any american military space activities will be controlled by the u.s. air force but reports force commanders love the idea. little did you know this week may well go down in history the pentagon's announced it's weaponize ng

space job one for an air force and an air component is to gain and maintain air superiority freedom from attack and freedom to maneuver unlike space superiority it's not an american birthrate yet a resource a plan for a fight for it and when it the hints were all there almost a decade ago one hundred and seventy eight countries voted on a u.n. resolution to prevent a space arms race only two countries abstained the u.s. and israel washington also blocked a joint russian chinese effort to ban all weapons in space after all who's to say what is a weapon. any object orbiting or transiting through space can be a weapon if that object is intentionally placed onto a collision course with another space object this makes treaty verification impossible yet they keep saying that everything they do has

a peaceful purpose take the x. s. y. and the spacecraft. a jet that could put satellites into orbit on the cheap probably means if you can take a satellite into orbit it can also take our hostile satellite out of orbit who is going to stop them there. last year the us put several mysterious satellites into orbit not your usual kind of ones that watch earth know these apparently monitor other spacecraft friendly neighborhood watch. the u.s. is not seeking to weaponize space our goal is to work with all responsible

spacefaring nations to ensure a safe secure and stable space environment the us air forces x. thirty seven b. which has spent almost two years orbiting earth its purpose is classified its mission is classified its budget is classified. then you've got the various kinetic bombardment and global strike projects that the pentagon is reportedly pursuing they'll probably see that there was a peaceful to sue piece for the pentagon the space budget was doubled last year from five to ten billion and next year it's going up this year's budget increases the eighteen budget proposal increases what the air force is proposing to spend on space by twenty percent and we're shifting to space as

a war fighting domain just think of the message these sends ready said arms race. washington has been urging to pull shia militias backed by iran out of the country now that they're and the isolation is over the u.s. congress is currently considering slapping sanctions on the militias but the response from baghdad has been harsh and it seems that several other countries are also not exactly on the same page with washington. if the fighters in iraq need to go at all while the iraqis are we going to try various that it overtakes and. popular mobilization unit fighters should be encouraged because they are the hope

of the country and the region no party has the right to interfere in iraqi affairs . and those if it is suddenly said we told secretary tillerson that as far as trade is concerned our trade with north korea has decreased significantly as far as the question about the embassy goes but embassy there is a very small but there is in fact an embassy i told secretary tillerson that some other friendly countries should maintain embassies there. would be the support i think of our allies the european allies and others to make

the case in the world. that this meal really has to be revisited. and. we have to international community strongly behind the school implementation to deal. i think we have developed a very bad habit during the early one nine hundred ninety s. when we emerged as they say the sole remaining superpower and we were in a position where pretty much everybody did whatever we told them to do. think that those habits die hard that people get into the habit of thinking we can tell you to do this we can tell you to do that but they'd think we'd go with it we don't think that they notice that we're not as strong as we were say twenty years ago relative to other powers. the world cup host russia has now really lost to one of the tournament favorites ology tina and a friendly played at the newly revamped to do sneaky stadium and he's done the

whole kings was following the match for us. the brits only cold wet weather here in moscow didn't dampen the fire and spirits they turned out on mass to see this spectacle of football at a new look refurbished revamped stadium in terms of the much itself those hoping for a goal first would disappoint at the one goal coming out in the game from my girl suspiciously perhaps from our order from an offside position but russia despite struggling in midfield especially attack word pushovers in the second half they did play better they created some silencers from counter-attack sort of taiz and threatening the hours of time goal as well so there is much to improve on before next year certainly there are some positives to take away as well now we came to the stadium a few hours before the game to have a look around and see what preparations are on the way for the world cup next year . the.

last time i was here earlier this year the whole place was a building site now evolution e.q. has been the fabric revamped and totally upgraded new pitch new seats new roof air conditioning the weight has really been with. enough people right things argentina is for in the world russia is sixty fifth not the favorites in this game for many the chance to see legends in action messi i do aero divola is simply on miscible some of the argentineans now also play here in russia it's gearing up to be a real festival of football. they are we enjoyed that you're right up to date join me for more in half an hour.

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and lindsay francis is being bused broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. coming up transportation in the u.k. is regulators not to mention blackout it's an epic fight covering health safety drivers' rights labor issues paying taxes and much much more it never ends also retail in the age of tech the holidays are coming up that's where the true nature of consumer spending is revealed something trend watchers are looking at is just how much tech has taken over and who is buying the most of it the host of the big picture home cook fills us in and it's the year of the crypto currency don't deny it pick point getting nearly eight thousand dollars countries around the world banning it or embracing it offer the banks retailers even media platforms using blocking technology and i've got former us attorney mr barr here with me for that

stand by to let's start right now. america first to set it president donald trump obviously but his latest utterance was in vietnam during a stop on his eleven day tour through asia the audience was filled with c.e.o.'s attending the asia pacific economic cooperation summit on friday part of his speech covered the basics we are not going to let the united states be taken advantage of anymore and then he added as twists that he doesn't blame countries for doing it they're looking out for their own interests they were just doing their job in fact he'd do the same it had his usual top line talking points america had been treated unfairly but shame on itself for letting up.